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Facebook ups the ante on organ donor awareness

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 Posted in Op/Ed, social networking, Transplant | No Comments »

A couple of days ago, Facebook gave its base of 950 million users the ability to indicate that they are an organ donor. This, by itself could be fairly unremarkable, like many of the other features of the social network. ...

3 years ago today – or something like that

Monday, January 4th, 2010 Posted in Transplant | 3 Comments »

It was just 3 years ago that right about now I would be getting out of surgery, and heading to ICU for the beginning of my journey with my new liver. To me it still seems like it was yesterday, ...

13 transplants, 26 operations and a record setting run in Washington DC

Monday, December 14th, 2009 Posted in Transplant | Comments Off

Georgetown University Hospital and nearby Washington Hospital performed 13 kidney transplants over what must have been a grueling 6 day marathon recently. It's amazing that it snowballed into such a large endeavor since based on the article, it seemed to ...

About those posts….

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Posted in Blatherings, Transplant | 2 Comments »

First off, for those of you who jut got spammed with 70 some odd emails... hehehe sorry about that. I just decided to import all of the posts from Deliver My Liver to here, and have just a single blog ...

Steve Jobs possibly up for a new Liver

Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Transplant | Comments Off

Poking around on The Huffington Post today I find a snippit about Steve Jobs possibly looking at a Liver Transplant, which linked to this article on Bloomberg.com. Jobs just recently took a leave of absence from Apple to get his ...